This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In the traditional Jewish betrothal ceremony (called tnoyim in Yiddish), the bride and groom barely play a role. The parents of both sides ...

Former Cal student radio host (KALX) Eric Fixler writes: This is the Oy Mendele! episode from December 2004, when we were still on KALX. It features music historian Craig Harwood and myself walking ...

You only need to hear a few seconds of klezmer music to identify it as Jewish. With an exuberant clarinet, sometimes laughing, sometimes wailing, its distinctive sound is formed out of eastern ...

Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...